People lying down at the airport due to heavy snow! ...Flight operations are also in turmoil.

[Anchor]
The heavy snow has also caused a chaos in aircraft operations.Hundreds of flights

were canceled or delayed, causing passengers to suffer greatly, as well as being stranded on planes and airports.

Reporter Kim Ki-bong's report.

[Reporter]
The lobby of Incheon International Airport is full of tired travelers.

People who can't even hold a chair fall on the bare floor and put on hard eyes.

They are stranded and trapped at the airport due to heavy snow.

After several hours of delay, I couldn't find any connecting traffic because I arrived at dawn, far behind schedule, or an aircraft that eventually failed to leave.

[Traveller who arrived from the U.S. : How did you turn around and came to Incheon, but you went around for another hour 30 minutes before you arrived. There are people who want to die, there are kids crying, there are people with panic disorder....]

Even after dawn, flight disruptions continued, causing damage to passengers.

[Jeong Jae-hee / Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do: I booked a flight because I even used my vacation, but I'm upset that you informed me of the cancellation this morning.]

[Choi Sara / Bukhyeon-dong, Seoul: Because of this situation, everything we planned to go to Taiwan went wrong, so we might have to take more time off.]

If the plane freezes ice on the surface of the fuselage due to snow, it is impossible to take off the aircraft due to safety risks, so ice making and prevention work are required, but the mooring is clogged as demand is concentrated all at once.

[Incheon Airport official: If it's my turn, the plane has to get out to stay at the gate and get out, but won't it get out later than usual? I couldn't get out on time..., [The way they arrive will be affected]

In particular, passengers complained more as airlines failed to properly deal with the simultaneous disruption.

[Kim In-yeol / Wolseong-dong, Daegu-si: What an airline employee says can't be reached by his superiors, so he doesn't answer any questions. I can't communicate. [It's too frustrating for them to complain]
On the first day of heavy snowfall in
258 flights were canceled, 462 flights were delayed at domestic airports, including Incheon International Airport, and at least 440 flights were canceled or delayed on the second day.

I'm Kim Ki-bong of YTN.



Filmmaker: Kim Jung-han and Jung Jin-hyun Video Editing: Jung Kook-yoon